big ron
Chief Super Moderator
2022 - but we won't get to that!
I don't even remember Thatcher that well, but it does feel like we've gone back in time.
In the sheer level of HORROR about JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING at the moment, I feel it isn't being considered enough that JACOB REES FUCKING MOGG is a member of the fucking CABINET!!!!!
Because of course he is. Boris has either monumentally fucked up or played a blinder, depending how you feel about it. He has put all the Brexiters in charge. It is, therefore, time for them to own their shit.
Which of course, they can't. This is the most dangerously monomaniacal and self-seeking cabinet I have witnessed and I was alive in 1987. I'm scared. Really.
He's on TV making a speech right now. Where the fuck is all the money coming from new police, improved infrastructure etc?
He said Labour would choose when to call the confidence motion, and did not guarantee it would be before Britain leaves the EU
We live in a time when no single politician knows what's going on. They can go for no deal, but Parliament will block it. They can try to close Parliament, but I reckon the courts will stop them. Despite a ton of bravado, the fact that Johnson has exactly the same problems as May seems for the moment at least, not being mentioned so much. Of course if they have no deal and the Irish border closes, all hell with reign down on them. You certainly get a sense there's been some practise terror going on in NI. Realistically Johnson's best option is an extension and GE.It's No Deal folks. They've said it. Gove is in most of the papers with it today.
I presume, the Brexit Party.Who are they gaining in the polls at the expense of?
Despite a ton of bravado, the fact that Johnson has exactly the same problems as May seems for the moment at least, not being mentioned so much.
That they were clearly talking shit the last nine years and there *is* money to spend.I don't see the point in attacking his willingness to spend money, it's a fundamentally right-wing line of argument.
I'm dubious about how much is going to line the pockets of Tory donors but if he commits to improving infrastructure outside of London then it would be a rare example of the moderate, One Nation stance that Boris likes to say he has.
I don't think anyone but the most unadulterated loon would buy it.
Conservatives still 10 points ahead of Labour in the latest YouGov voting intention polls - and Johnson twice as popular as Corbyn.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politic...g-intention-con-32-lab-22-lib-dem-19-brex-13-